Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-02
II TEXAS SALT MINES.
= Strong Company at vgork at Colorado.
Large Works Near P,cas City.

= Strong Company at vgork at Colorado.
Large Works Near Pscos City.
~nUTuNA1D, TN. july 25, ISL.
10 the Editor OF the Gazette
VIII JON please state il your next Sun
dag paper waetaer here ere any salt
mines in Texas, and # so now extensive
AMI whether they are being worked tG any
extent; also wlere IocE.ed. B. answer
ing tie above yCu viii greatly obIge,
4 REGULAR READ r.
There Gre several places in Texas where
salt il quantities Cau be found, and IN
many Instances individuals obtain it for
their own use. II there are shy mines
being worked where salt IS sold TO the
public THE GAZETTE IS not aware of II.
CULOPAuo, TN, y ally -, lss7.
To the Editor OF the Gazette
/ I clipped TIE euc.0.ed article from your
paper OF the 28.n iIeJ., and think it
strange you should have forgotten an
article on our salt manufacturing interest
l sent you some weeks si5Ce, which was
! pR44ishsd IL your paper. When our city
! Mas first laid out company CT business
men raised g fund, selected site on the
high table land, two miles southwest of
/ Colorado for water works. On boring
down 900 feet q salt bed Of 100 feet in
/ thickness WAS gone through, and at a
depth Of 225 fee5 more g strong upward
/ flowing stream OF water Tas struck which
penetrated the salt bed and furnished
most valuable s2lt-making brine. This
of course destroyed the water for use in
the city, and the plant was sold 20 eastern
/ salt manufacturers who built works and.
have been successfully and proftaoly
manufacturing salt, and unsble to supply
/ the daily Increasing demand for same.
/ Recently this company have organ
! lied en- incorporated company
and increased their capital
to 100000, aud Will increase their man
ufecturiug facilities. prominent busl-
ness man Of Dallas, Tex, owns . 500
acre vslley suburban tract CT land On Col
orado river and Texas and Pacific Rail-
road, situated just one mile from the
Lone Star Salt works, which Professor c..
c. Broa5bcad q Missouri, G scientist
and geos6gist, examined, and says is IN
4 derfaid with an immense bed of cCaI and
sslt, the latter superior in quality and
greater in quantity, and more easy of &C
cess, than the plant already developed.
The owner of this valuable plant offers
one-half interest in SINE for $1,000 to
onh or more men who will Join him in
etc; furnishing these v2lustle CGmmodI-
lles TO this vast territory for sale. There
is rooms here for one or more salt works,
and ell can lad ready safe for sat az
nOst remune1stive Prices; as il na5 been
demonstrated tina sait car be produced
here cheaper than anywhere else in the
United States. In any event, the Valley
Suburban Salt-Piant Salt Company Will
he formed and be at work il sixty days,
and Colorado City will be great salt
) manufacturing center. p. D. CORDELL.
PECo> CITY, Ten, July %, lSo7.
To the Editor of the Gazette
see in your issue Of the 2Sth that
some one wishes to know if there are any
/ salt mines in Texas. About sixty miles
, southeast OF this place IS sn ine15austi-
bic supply that has been worked fer the
past thirty years. During the war salt
t was hauled from this place to San An
tonic and there distributed over the state.
These mines still supply all the surround
ding country. Seven miles east OF Pecos
City is q very strong salt lake
about three miles wide by fifteen
: long, where salt in any quantity
cen easily be produced. At Carlo Pass
sixty miles ives: Ct Lere on the Tox2s